67000 Moroccan women who didn't know how to read and write took part in a literary program in mosques across the country. After learning how to read and write in the three-month intensive program held by the country’s Awqaf and Islamic Affairs Ministry, the women together wrote a copy of the Quran. At the end of the program, each of them wrote one word of the Holy Book in Othmani style of Arabic writing. After the entire Quran was ...
21) قال رسول اللّه صلى اللّه عليه وآله و سلّم: ما من شاب يدع للّه الدنيا ولـهوها وأهرم شبابه في طاعة الله إلاّ أعطاه اللّه أجر إثنين وسبعين صدّيقاً.
21. The Messenger of Allāh (s.w.a.) has said: “There is not a single young person who turns away from the transient world and its pleasures only for the [pleasure] of Allāh and ...
The New York Times revealed that "on the morning of March 13, 2011, the assistant secretary of state for Near Eastern affairs, Jeffrey D. Feltman, wrote an urgent email to more than two dozen colleagues informing them that Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates were sending troops into Bahrain to put down anti government protests there."The paper included a number of pictures of an email from former US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton ...
"I bear witness that you were (descended) through pure loins and chaste wombs." We are on the eve of one of the most auspicious days in the history of the world. It is the day on which God Almighty sent into the world, through an unbroken chain of virtuously monotheistic fathers and mothers, His Last and Greatest Messenger. It was on the 17th of Rabi al-Awwal that the Best of God's creation was born in a monotheistic family, and ...
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We have said that man enjoys a sort of innate dignity. The very nature of his creation has bestowed on him a number of inalienable and untransferable rights and freedoms. This is the spirit and basis of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.
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We have said that man enjoys a sort of innate dignity. The very nature of his creation has bestowed on him a number of inalienable and untransferable rights and freedoms. ...
Marijuana is the most widely used illegal narcotic in the United States and Europe. According to some annual surveys, after 2007, more teenagers smoked marijuana than cigarettes in the United States. Many young Muslims need to become aware of the Islamic position on marijuana because of its popularity. Does Islam condone the use of marijuana? Does Islam forbid it? If Islam forbids it, what does it say about cases of ...
Considering that Tarawih Prayers are offered in pairs of two or more raka‘āt, according to ahlul-Sunna, can you please let us know What position does Tarawih prayer take toward Shia school of thought?Concise answerTarawih Prayer refers to Nafilah prayers performed at night in the holy Month of Ramadan, after salat of Isha.[1] Tarawih prayer is offered by Ahlul Sunna in congregation, ordered by their second caliphate.[2] The prayers ...
was born into a lower middle-class English family, my mother was (and is) a housewife and my father worked at an electronics firm (he is now a lecturer in electronic engineering). My father came from a Catholic background, and my mother from a Protestant one. They had both shared a short spell in the Quaker church in the early 1970s but by the time I came along they were strong atheists and religion was never mentioned in our house, let ...
A Russian investigative body says the Takfiri Daesh terrorist group was involved in an attempted attack against a mosque in the country’s Siberia Province last year. The militants had tried to attack a mosque in an unnamed Siberian town, said the Investigative Committee of the Russian Federation on Thursday. The committee said it had completed the probe and submitted the case to a court. There were no further details on how the ...
The fundamental rights of every citizen in Nigeria as stipulated in section 4 of the 1999 amended constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria, has given every citizen the liberty to live and to belong to any religious doctrine of his choice, base on his conceptual understanding.The injunction of this liberty could not be violated or seized by any individual, entity, or authority, as also stipulated in section 33 of the 1999 constitution, ...
Mistakes Parents often make
Many parents have frustrated and angry relationships with their children. Even very young children sometimes become a source of annoyance with their constant demands, whining, and disobedience. Family life is supposed to be joyous and fulfilling but reality is often very different in many cases. However, a lot of the heartache and pain of child rearing is quite unnecessary. If parents would take a little ...
The near-east specialist from the UCL Institute of Archaeology, Mark al-Taweel, said that the antiquities looted by terrorist organizations, on top of which ISIS terrorists are being sold in the markets of Britain and other European states. Al-Taweel added in a report issued by the British Newspaper of The Guardian that terrorists work through systematic networks on looting these antiquities and smuggling them to Europe without any questioning ...
The SunriseThe people of the Book (Christians and Jews) gave good news of the appearance of a new prophet whose time was about to come. The Arab tribes reported the news. Those who sneered at the idols longed for the coming of the new prophet. One day, a man came from Makkah and said to Jundub:There's a man in Makkah who says that there is no god but Allah and claims that he is a prophet.Jundub asked:Which tribe does he belong ...
The lives of Ali (A.S.) and Fatima (S.A.) are a school of thought for the next generations so that the people may learn a lesson from them. They had such coordination that when Ali (A.S.) got free from the work outside the house, he used to lend a helping hand to Fatima (S.A.). On the other hand, the daughter of the Prophet (P.B.U.H.) also, always tried to keep Abul Hassan (Ali) (A.S.) happy. Both led such a life full of love and affection that ...
Ahlul Bayt News Agency - Activists on social media said that the Bahraini Interior Ministry's security forces continued to take down on Tuesday (October 13, 2015) banners and flags for the Ashura season which the country's Shiite majority commemorates each year.Some information stated that the security forces took down the Ashura banners in the villages of Shahrkan, Al-Malkiya, Sehla, Bu Quwah and Isa Town.The Shiite majority in the island ...
Today's world is a raucous world. Sometimes one feels as if he has lost his self and lacks any will. We move along the current to any direction either up or down. Everything depends on the circumstances. It can be said that humans in today's world have reached the point of uncertainty and face the crisis of identity.
The crisis emerges when a conflict arises between the person's inner self and the surrounding world. There are different kinds ...
There is no scope (possibility, range) for terrorism in Islam. In the Koran on many occasions it has been rebated (deduced) that true religion can be represented through intelligence and adducing (citing) cogent (powerful) reasons or detailing out convincing reason. In fact, the Koran has directed mankind to listen to everybody, and accept only what is logically appealing, sound and good.
But terrorism ushered (announced) in, was introduced ...
Let us read what the Glorious Qur'an says about these practical
principles and values in respect to marriage:
"And marry such of you who are single and the pious of your male
slaves and female slaves. If they be poor Allah will enrich them of
his bounty. Allah is of ample means, Knowing. And let those who do not
find means to marry keep chaste till Allah gives them independence by
his grace. And such of those who seek a writing (of ...
May God's blessings and mercy be on your Marrriage is the Prophet's (pbuh) tradition in life; it is not a mere bond and unity between two physical bodies. Rather it is the assemblage of two spirits. Marriage is not aimed at attaining a transient joy, rather at reaching human perfection and perpetuating the human generation.
Be a meritorious wife for your husband as God wants you to be a woman with a prosperous life in this world and a ...
